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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
part of the last half century . As an enlightened politician , quick to perceive truth , and fearless to speak it ; as a liberal patron of science , literature , and art ; as a steady friend , a kind master , and a diligent seeker out and rewarder of merit wherever it was to be found , no matter how humble might be the sphere in which it moved , —in each and all of these capacities his Royal Highness deserves to be gratefully remembered
by his countrymen . It must be said also to his credit , that his opinions as a reformer were not adopted from blind , servile compliance with the fashion of the times ; but were formed and matured at a period when the very word " reform" was synonimous with revolution , and affixed a sort of brand upon the individual—no matter how exalted might be his position—who dared to enlist under its banner . In those days of
relentless persecution , when it was a crime little short of sacrilege to maintain that the boroughmongers were not the most immaculate of politicians , and their parliament the most immaculate of parliaments ; when high church and high tory principles were in the ascendant ; and
the gaol , the pillory , and the hulks , were the portion of those who doubted the patriotism and omniscience of a corrupt lay and clerical oligarchy;—in those disastrous days for freedom , which we trust will never return , the Duke of Sussex boldly threw his influence into the scale of the weaker party ; insisted on the right ofthe people—then only known by name , and unacknowledged as a body—to a voice in the legislature ; and
distinguished , himself , on e ^ er * occasion , by his energetic advocacy of . the great principles of civil and religious liberty . His Royal Highness married again , but privately , the Lady Cecilia Underwood . This marriage was also made in defiance of " The Royal Marriage Act , " and this tacit defiance to the royal authority was so far resentedthat the Duchess of Sussex ( for so we must consider her , as
, we must consider his first lady , and Duke de jure as we also conceive his son to be ) , was never acknowledged as such , but , in the semi-recognition of 1840 , created , by a species of compromise , Duchess of Inverness , on the 30 th of March in that year . Her Grace survives his Royal Highness .
( From the Kent Herald . ) His long-sustained consistency in the advocation of liberal politics , the affability of his deportment , his love of learning and learned men , his extensive usefulness as a patron of charitable institutions , had endeared him to the public at large ; and , in spite of some errors in private life , he has left a reputation superior to most of the princes of the Brunswick
race . His virtues were his own—his faults those of his position and the temptations to which an unnatural law ( the Royal Marriage Act ) had exposed him .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
part of the last half century . As an enlightened politician , quick to perceive truth , and fearless to speak it ; as a liberal patron of science , literature , and art ; as a steady friend , a kind master , and a diligent seeker out and rewarder of merit wherever it was to be found , no matter how humble might be the sphere in which it moved , —in each and all of these capacities his Royal Highness deserves to be gratefully remembered
by his countrymen . It must be said also to his credit , that his opinions as a reformer were not adopted from blind , servile compliance with the fashion of the times ; but were formed and matured at a period when the very word " reform" was synonimous with revolution , and affixed a sort of brand upon the individual—no matter how exalted might be his position—who dared to enlist under its banner . In those days of
relentless persecution , when it was a crime little short of sacrilege to maintain that the boroughmongers were not the most immaculate of politicians , and their parliament the most immaculate of parliaments ; when high church and high tory principles were in the ascendant ; and
the gaol , the pillory , and the hulks , were the portion of those who doubted the patriotism and omniscience of a corrupt lay and clerical oligarchy;—in those disastrous days for freedom , which we trust will never return , the Duke of Sussex boldly threw his influence into the scale of the weaker party ; insisted on the right ofthe people—then only known by name , and unacknowledged as a body—to a voice in the legislature ; and
distinguished , himself , on e ^ er * occasion , by his energetic advocacy of . the great principles of civil and religious liberty . His Royal Highness married again , but privately , the Lady Cecilia Underwood . This marriage was also made in defiance of " The Royal Marriage Act , " and this tacit defiance to the royal authority was so far resentedthat the Duchess of Sussex ( for so we must consider her , as
, we must consider his first lady , and Duke de jure as we also conceive his son to be ) , was never acknowledged as such , but , in the semi-recognition of 1840 , created , by a species of compromise , Duchess of Inverness , on the 30 th of March in that year . Her Grace survives his Royal Highness .
( From the Kent Herald . ) His long-sustained consistency in the advocation of liberal politics , the affability of his deportment , his love of learning and learned men , his extensive usefulness as a patron of charitable institutions , had endeared him to the public at large ; and , in spite of some errors in private life , he has left a reputation superior to most of the princes of the Brunswick
race . His virtues were his own—his faults those of his position and the temptations to which an unnatural law ( the Royal Marriage Act ) had exposed him .